The environment minister has said that Thames Water, one of the largest water companies in the UK, had not paid out dividends to its shareholders in five years.
Rebecca Pow, Conservative MP for Taunton Deane, was responding to an urgent question about the future of Thames Water, which is currently enduring financial difficulties.
It later emerged that Thames Water may have been handing out dividends to the shareholders but not in a way that is more able to avoid detection.
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